CIRCLE OF FRIENDS  1995, 103 minutes Based on the novel by Maeve Binchy, this coming-of-age film opens in the small 1950s town of Knockglen. Minnie Driver plays Benny, a teenager whose circle of friends consists of willowy Nan and Eve,...

WAKING NED DIVINE  1998, 91 minutes In the tiny village of Tullymore, someone has won the Irish National Lottery, and elderly friends Jackie and Michael are determined to find out who it is. They scheme high and low for the...

THE TERMINAL  2004, 124 minutes Directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by the experiences of Mehran Nasseri, who lived at Charles De Gaulle Airport for fifteen years, this film stars Tom Hanks as Viktor N., an Eastern European traveler stuck...

THE THIN MAN 1934, 91 minutes For the week before Valentine’s Day, we screened a number of films depicting a romantic New York. We decided to go with a classic involving a married couple whose chemistry is so engaging and...

RADIO DAYS 1987, 88 minutes To do a New York On-Screen series without a Woody Allen film is like depicting FDR without the cigarette holder or the Titanic without the Iceberg. Toxic analogies aside, he is obviously a problematic figure, but seeing...

THE AUTOMAT 2021 79 minutes Before there was McDonald’s, before there was Howard Johnson’s, there was Horn & Hardart’s Automat, once the largest restaurant chain in America. The Automats were essentially cafeterias with food portions behind coin-operated glass doors, which...

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1999, 113 minutes As cinematic confections go, the two Thomas Crown Affairs are notable in that they are windows into the times that made them. The first film, released in 1968 and set in Boston with...

MOONSTRUCK 1987 102 minutes With broad, vibrant brushstrokes, Norman Jewison directed this film starring Cher as an Italian-American widow faced with a second chance at love. Set in Brooklyn Heights amidst a tradition-bound family, Cher’s character is engaged to Danny...

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 1993 139 minutes For a man who has made his name depicting the gritty underside of New York, it would seem strange that Martin Scorcese would want to adapt Edith Wharton’s novel about polite society in...

BELL, BOOK and CANDLE,  1958 106 minutes It takes a lot to make New Yorkers flinch, and in Christmastime Greenwich Village, a circle of witches amidst the Beatniks and Bohemians raises nary an eyebrow. If anything, buttoned-down publisher James Stewart...